Care in crisis as council awaits more cuts Article published:December 2012 Cuts have left Manchester City Council struggling to plug a £5.8 million overspend in its Adults Services budget as needs rise across the city. Costs are surging due to a rise in the number of people who need care for learning disabilities, a report […]
Police searching for missing Indian student Souvik Pal find body in Bridgewater Canal Alice McKeegan January 22, 2013 Police searching for missing Indian student Souvik Pal have found a body in water in Old Trafford. Specialist officers made the discovery in the Bridgewater Canal at around 2pm today. Formal identification is not due to take […]
Hospitals warned as superbug cases rise By KATE FOSTER Published on Sunday 20 January 2013 00:00 HOSPITALS have been warned to step up their efforts to tackle a deadly superbug after new figures showed cases are on the rise again. Scotland’s chief nursing officer has written to health boards warning them to be “vigilant” against […]
People living with serious mental health problems deserve New Year honours Stressed social workers, compassionate nurses, advocates for better care, all those surviving their struggles – these are the people who deserve to be nominated • Clare Allan The Guardian Tuesday 8 January 2013 There are a number of people I’d like to nominate for […]
1500 DISABLED PEOPLE DEAD FROM STARVATION, ILLNESS AND SUICIDE AFTER BEING DEEMED ‘FIT FOR WORK’ BETWEEN JANUARY AND AUGUST 2011 ATOS DON’T GIVE A TOSS! Time to fight back ! 31 May, 12pm: Protest march from Albert Square to ATOS “assessment” centre at Albert Bridge House 6 June, 7pm: Public Meeting at Friends’ Meeting House […]
A man died outside a hospital ward after nurses refused to let him in, an inquest has heard Peter Thompson, 41, was a patient at Manchester Royal Infirmary’s mental health unit but was not allowed in on 3 April 2010 as he had a bottle of vodka. He refused to give up the vodka […]
The tabloids have greeted the news that all nurses will soon go to university by declaring we will become “too posh to wash”. But such backward comments ignore the real problems with the plan.
While it sounds good to give nurses more education, the reality is that this is the latest step in a long history of deskilling. It will lead to fewer nurses on the wards and work getting shifted onto less trained staff.
In the 27 years I have been a nurse I have seen many changes. Nurse training has become increasingly academic.
Some of this is to be welcomed. We want to be able to understand how to judge research on care and consider ethical issues, and we need to be able to have the skills to assess what really works.
Yet most student nurses will tell you that current training provides little help in teaching you to do the actual job you have to do – like putting up drips. Too much time is spent “academising” practical skills.
BOOK ONE: “More Time for Politics” is the publication of Tonys Diaries from 2001-2007 and is signed by Tony Benn ‘To the patients of Park House’
BOOK TWO “Dare to Be a Daniel Tony Benn, Then and Now” and Signed By Tony Benn with the words in Tonys own handwriting ‘For the support of Karen Reissmann’
It’s a beautiful written book about Tonys life and times and will be a historical collection piece for when the story is told about Karen’s own heroic stand for the patients of Manchester, it would make a wonderful present at Christmas for anyone who is interested in politics.